A near full review of AMD's highly-anticipated Ryzen 7 2700X 2nd generation Zen processor has been published by French magazine Canard OC hardware. A Reddit user has posted several photos of the review pages, including combined percentage results of numerous game and content creation benchmarks.

The results are somewhat vague due to the fact that numbers from several benchmarks have simply been combined into a percentage, but results in the content creation tests are still very encouraging. Based on Intel's Core i5-7600K having a 100% baseline performance, the Ryzen 7 2800X was 9% faster than the Ryzen 7 1800X and significantly quicker than the Core i7-8700K - AMD and Intel's current mainstream flagships respectively. It's likely some of these tests saw an even bigger increase too, but the result appears to be an average of at least six tests.

Game performance - AMD Ryzen 7 2700XReddit/Canard PC Hardware

The game results are, at face value, a little disappointing given Intel still performs much better and even the Core i5-8400 outperforms the Ryzen 7 2700X. However, without a game-per-game set of results, it's difficult to come to any conclusions and let's not forget that the new CPU comes in at 104% overall, while its predecessor, the Ryzen 7 1700X, only manages 98.6% - we're still looking at a 5.5% increase if we convert these percentages into scores.

Seeing as I haven't even received review samples of motherboards or CPUs yet, these figures should be taken with a large pinch of salt too, as the test system did not use AMD's new X470 chipset, which should offer additional performance improvements, plus new drivers and BIOS versions are likely still being worked on too. The content creation tests are already very exciting though.

AMD Ryzen 7 2700X Turbo frequenciesReddit/Canard PC Hardware

AMD Ryzen 7 2700X latencyReddit/Canard PC Hardware

Other pages leaked are results from AMD's XFR and Precision Boost 2 frequencies and these appear to confirm AMD's claims of Ryzen second-generation CPUs offering higher frequencies, lower latencies and a smoother boost curve, with frequencies staying higher for longer as more cores are engaged as you can see above.

I'll be conducting in-depth testing of AMD's new CPUs, but like most other journalists out there, I'll be waiting for launch day next month.

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